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{{Rename|Seto}}
{{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Character
 
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| image name = Priest_Seto.jpg
 
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{{Infobox character
| japanese name = セト
 
| romaji name = Seto
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| image = Priest Seto.png
| english name = Seto
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| ja_name = セト
| alternate name = P. Seto
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| romaji_name = Seto
| manga debut =
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| en_name = Seto
| anime debut = {{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|52|ref}}
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| fil_name = Ministro Seto
| video game debut =
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| gender = Male
 
| previous_organization = [[Sacred Guardians]]
| appears manga =
 
 
| royal_title = Pharaoh of Egypt
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist]]
 
 
| reign = circa. 1000 B.C.
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World]]
 
 
| predecessor = [[Pharaoh Atem]]
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]
 
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| previous_occupation = Priest
| appears anime = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series)]]
 
| appears video games =
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| relatives =
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* [[Aknadin]] (father; deceased; sent to the [[Shadow Realm]] in the dub)
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories]]
 
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories]]
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* [[Seto's mother|Mother]]
 
* [[Aknamkanon]] (paternal uncle; deceased)
| gender = male
 
| Ka =
 
* [[Duos]]
 
* [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (character)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]
 
| affiliation = Ancient Egypt
 
| previous affiliation = [[The Sacred Guardians]]
 
| occupation = Pharaoh
 
| previous occupation = Sacred Guardian of [[Pharaoh Atem]]
 
| fmrdeck = [[Blue-Eyes]]
 
| relatives =
 
* [[Aknadin]] (father)
 
* [[Seto's mother|Unnamed mother]]
 
* [[Aknamkanon]] (paternal uncle)
 
 
* [[Pharaoh Atem|Atem]] (first cousin)
 
* [[Pharaoh Atem|Atem]] (first cousin)
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| anime_debut = {{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|52|ref}}
* [[Seto Kaiba]] (rencarnation)
 
 
| appears_in_anime = ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
| japanese voice = {{voice actors|ja|Kenjiro Tsuda}}
 
| english voice = {{voice actors|en|Eric Stuart}}
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| ja_voice = {{voice actors|ja|Kenjiro Tsuda}}
 
| en_voice = {{voice actors|en|Eric Stuart}}
}}
 
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| de_voice = {{voice actors|de|Gerrit Schmidt-Foß}}
 
| tl_voice = Michael Punzalan
 
}}
   
'''Seto''' is one of the six high priests that guard the [[Millennium Item|Millennium Items]], and is the first cousin of [[Pharaoh Atem]]. [[Seto Kaiba]] is the modern reincarnation of Priest Seto. Seto is named after the Egyptian God [[Wikipedia:Set (mythology)|Set]].
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'''Seto''' was one of the six [[Sacred Guardians|priests]] who served under [[Pharaoh Atem]]. The wielder of the [[Millennium Rod]], he was the son of [[Aknadin|Priest Akhenaden]] and first cousin of [[Pharaoh Atem]], later succeeding him as Pharaoh. [[Seto Kaiba]] is his modern reincarnation. Seto is named after the Egyptian God [[Wikipedia:Set (mythology)|Set]]. In the Philippine Dub, it changes into Ministro Seto due to his role change from a "Priest" to "Minister."
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==Personality==
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Unlike his reincarnation, Seto Kaiba, Priest Seto was more open-minded and willing to work with others. Despite this, he was shown to be quite cruel, once considering ordering the guards to draw and quarter a prisoner, even though he had just had his evil spirit exorcised from him and would not be likely to perform any more crimes without it. However, when advised to exercise restraint for such prisoners, he agreed. Seto also had a high degree of intelligence, which carried over to his [[Seto_Kaiba|modern reincarnation]]. Another trait carried to his later reincarnation was his ruthlessness and belief in power, as he suggested brutal torture and death sentences for criminals and would sacrifice comrades in order to achieve what he perceived to be "the greater good."
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
===Battle City===
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===Ancient Egypt===
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====Childhood====
Before the Battle City tournament, a tablet showing Priest Seto fighting Pharaoh Atem, with Blue Eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician, respectively was on display at the museum.
 
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Although technically [[Atem|Prince Atem's]] cousin by blood, Seto was raised as a commoner; his identity as [[Aknadin|Priest Akhenaden's]] son (who was the brother of Atem's deceased father, Pharaoh [[Aknamkanon|Akhenamkenan]]) was hidden from him out of fear for his personal safety. Due to this, Seto grew up an orphan, and initially believed his father to have been a soldier who died in battle.
   
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At one point, he saved [[Kisara|a girl]] from slave traders. When the traders set fire to his village and killed his [[Priest Seto's mother|mother]] in retaliation, the girl, named Kisara, unknowingly repaid him by unconsciously releasing her [[Ka|inner spirit]], [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (character)|the White Dragon]], who killed the traders and saved Seto.
===Anime and manga===
 
Three thousand years before the present day events of the anime and manga (5000 in the English anime), Priest Seto and Pharaoh [[Atem]] (the past incarnation of [[Yugi Muto]]) were friends and rivals who help each other by testing their mystical skills. Although technically Atem's cousin by blood, Seto is raised as a commoner; his identity as [[Akhenaden|Priest Akhenaden]]'s son (who is the brother of Atem's deceased father, Pharaoh [[Akhenamkhanen]]) is hidden from him out of fear for his personal safety. He is eventually able to become a part of the Pharaoh's court not because of his lineage, but because of his test scores, which were the highest the court had ever seen. This high degree of intelligence has apparently carried over to his [[Seto_Kaiba|modern reincarnation]]. Another trait carried to his later reincarnation is his ruthlessness and belief in power, as he suggested brutal torture and death sentences for criminals and would sacrifice comrades in order to achieve what he perceives as the greater good.
 
   
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====Priesthood====
When [[Thief King Bakura|Bakura]] - the arc's main antagonist - appears at the royal court with his powerful [[Ka]] [[Diabound Kernel|Diabound]], Seto decides that Bakura needs to be stopped and begins his search for Ka powerful enough to defeat Diabound. People could be tortured into revealing their Ka, so he decides to try rounding up and torturing criminals. This plan, he believes, would accomplish two things: both finding a Ka that could destroy Diabound and reducing the number of criminals that incite anarchy in the Pharaoh's kingdom.
 
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Priest Seto and Pharaoh [[Atem]] were friends and rivals who helped each other by testing their mystical skills. He was eventually able to become a part of the Pharaoh's court and own the [[Millennium Rod]], not because of his lineage, but because of his test scores, which were the highest the court had ever seen.
   
 
When [[Thief King Bakura|Bakura]] appeared at the royal court with his powerful [[Ka]] [[Diabound]], Seto and the other Priests tried to fight him off, but with no success. Eventually, Atem was able to summon [[Obelisk the Tormentor (character)|Obelisk the Tormentor]], which forced Bakura to retreat. Seto then decided that Bakura needed to be stopped and began a search for Ka powerful enough to defeat Diabound. People could be tortured into revealing their Ka, so, without the Pharaoh's knowledge, he decided to try rounding up and torturing criminals. This plan, he believed, would accomplish two things: both finding a Ka that could destroy Diabound and reducing the number of criminals that incite anarchy in the Pharaoh's kingdom.
[[File:psk.jpg | 200 px | thumb | left | Priest Seto and [[Kisara]].]]
 
   
 
[[File:psk.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Priest Seto and [[Kisara]].]]
During his search, he encounters [[Kisara]], who is being stoned because of her unorthodox appearance (snow white hair, pale tan skin, and deep blue eyes). [[Shada]] senses the great power within her ("even surpassing that of the gods") and Seto takes her back with him to the palace. There he remembers the first time they met: as children, Seto had saved Kisara from slave traders, who had kidnapped her from her home country and were planning to sell her for a high price. She repaid him by unconsciously releasing her inner spirit--the [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]--after the traders set fire to his village and killed his mother in retaliation.
 
   
 
During his search, he reencountered [[Kisara]], now a grown woman, who was being stoned because of her unorthodox appearance (snow white hair, pale tan skin, and deep blue eyes). [[Shada]] sensed a great power within her ("even surpassing that of the gods") and Seto took her back with him to the palace. There he remembered the first time they met.
Akhenaden, after being possessed by [[Zorc Necrophades|Zorc]], later attempts to test Kisara's immeasurable power by forcing her to fight in a battle against two other prisoners. Seto steps in and saves her, but the two fall into danger, causing Kisara to release her inner spirit dragon and save them both.
 
   
 
Akhenaden, after being possessed by [[Zorc Necrophades|Zorc]], later attempted to test Kisara's immeasurable power by forcing her to fight in a battle against two other prisoners. Seto stepped in and saved her, but the two fell into danger, which caused Kisara to release her Ka and save them both.
Akhenaden then orders Seto to kill Kisara and extract her Ka, claiming that the tremendous energy and power of the white dragon can surpass the enemy and even the Pharaoh's three gods. If Seto can obtain it, Seto can become the new king. Seto refuses, and Akhenaden kidnaps him in an attempt to corrupt his mind with darkness. At this point Akhenaden reveals that he is in fact Seto's father, and that his lifelong desire has been to see Seto ascend to the throne.
 
   
Before Seto can decide against this, however, Kisara runs to save him. He leaves Akhenaden/Zorc behind. Enraged, Akhenaden questions how his son can abandon the chance to rule over Egypt. Seto answers: "What is there to benefit from a world of darkness ruled by Zorc? Since I met Kisara, I realized how much of the world was dark and dry. And the solution to make this darkness disappear is through this light called love."<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|214|ref}}</ref> At this point Akhenaden fires off a beam of dark energy, and Kisara dies taking the blow meant for Seto.
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Later on, the Sacred Guardians and Atem went to [[Kul Elna]] to battle and defeat Bakura once and for all. Diabound was eventually destroyed by [[Mahad]], who became the [[Dark Magician (character)|Dark Magician]], but Akhenaden was eventually able to summon [[Zorc Necrophades]]. Zorc then transformed the former priest into the Great Shadow Magus, revealing that Akhenaden was Seto's father in the process, and his lifelong desire was to make Seto rise to the throne. Akhenaden then kidnapped Seto and took him to the Palace. He then instructed his son to extract the White Dragon from Kisara, and possess a power greater than the three Gods. Before Seto could decide against this, Kisara ran to save him. Enraged, Akhenaden questioned how his son could abandon the chance to rule over Egypt. Seto answered that there would be no benefit from a world ruled by Zorc, and that Kisara showed Seto a light, a light known as love.<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|214|ref}}</ref> At this point, Akhenaden fired off a beam of dark energy, and Kisara dies taking the blow meant for Seto.
   
After Kisara's death, Seto attempts to kill his father, but instead his mind is taken over by Akhenaden/Zorc and he is forced to duel Pharaoh Atem. Kisara saves Seto once more by using her "pure light" to purge Akhenaden from his mind, making Seto the new keeper of the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Seto sheds tears in front of the "Blue Eyes" tablet, with Kisara's dead body in his arms. Notably, this is the "vision" which appears to Kaiba during his duel with [[Ishizu Ishtar]] in the [[Battle City]] arc (as well as his later duel with [[Yami Bakura]]).
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After Kisara's death, Seto attempted to kill his father, but instead had his mind taken over by Akhenaden and was forced to battle Atem. Kisara then saved Seto once more by using her "pure light" to purge Akhenaden from his mind, making Seto the new keeper of the the White Dragon. Seto shed tears in front of the "Blue-Eyes" tablet as he held Kisara's dead body in his arms. (Notably, this is the "vision" Kaiba witnessed during his Duel with [[Ishizu Ishtar]] in the [[Battle City]] arc, as well as during his later Duel with [[Yami Bakura]].)
   
Subsequently, Seto fights bravely by Atem's side in the battle against Zorc Necrophades using the "Blue Eyes White Dragon." When Zorc is defeated, Atem tells the priest his reign is over, and passes the throne on to Seto. Seto then creates the famous stone carving of the two of them, as a tribute to his friendship with Pharaoh Atem.
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Subsequently, Seto fought bravely by Atem's side in the battle against [[Zorc Necrophades]], using the White Dragon. After Atem sealed himself and Zorc within the [[Millennium Puzzle]], Seto succeeded him as Pharaoh. Seto then constructed the [[Tablet of Lost Memories]], as a tribute to Atem. Sometime later in his reign, Seto presumably ordered all traces of Atem's name to be destroyed so as to prevent anyone from using it to resurrect Zorc, as Atem used his name as the key to free and seal Zorc away.
[[File:Seto, Mana and Isis.jpg|thumb|Seto upon being crowned Pharaoh, with Isis and Mana]]
 
   
===Non-canon appearances===
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===Battle City===
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In the late twentieth century, [[Ishizu Ishtar]] exhibited the tablet, depicting Seto and Atem's battle, at the [[Domino City Museum]]. Before convincing [[Seto Kaiba]] to host the [[Battle City]] ''[[Duel Monsters]]'' tournament, she showed him the tablet and noted similarities between his and Priest Seto's use of the White Dragon. However, Kaiba was skeptical of its authenticity. Ishizu then showed Kaiba the battle between Atem and Seto. When [[Yami Yugi]] saw the tablet, he was immediately convinced the tablet depicted himself and Kaiba.
[[File:Evil Seto.png|thumb|left|Seto as he appears in ''Forbidden Memories''.]]
 
In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories]]'', Seto is portrayed more as an antagonist. He is the high mage [[Heishin|Heishin's]] right hand man and rival to the prince ([[Pharaoh Atem|Atem]], although the player names him).
 
   
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During Kaiba's quarter-final Duel against Ishizu, Kaiba saw a vision of Priest Seto holding Kisara before the White Dragon tablet, after her death. This prompted Kaiba to use the White Dragon's card, "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]," to win the Duel. This interference disrupted Ishizu's prediction of Kaiba losing using "[[Obelisk the Tormentor (anime)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]."
He first appears dueling and defeating [[Jono]]. He mocks Jono's dueling skills, but Jono tells him that he isn't good enough to beat Atem. Seto cannot duel as he is called to meet Heishin, but agrees to duel Atem later. Seto later arrives at the Dueling Grounds, to face Atem. After Atem defeats him, he recognizes him as the Prince. None of Atem's friends had been aware of this.
 
   
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During Kaiba's semi-final Duel against Yami Yugi, the destruction of their [[Egyptian God]] cards triggered another vision, in which they saw the battle between Seto, possessed by Akhenaden, and Atem. The vision ended during the summoning of the White Dragon and Dark Magician. Kaiba and Yami Yugi then Summoned the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "[[Dark Magician (anime)|Dark Magician]]" cards. Yami Yugi believed they were fated to continue the battle, while Kaiba believed the vision to have been an illusion created by subliminal suggestion.
After [[the Mages]], take over, Seto finds Atem at the [[Forbidden Ruins]]. He explains the meaning of the map Atem has, that it gives the location of each [[Millennium Items|Millennium Item]]. He advises Atem to defeat each High Mage at each of the shrines on the map. [[Sadin]] advises Atem not to trust Seto. Regardless, Atem follows Seto's orders.
 
   
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===Dark RPG===
After Atem defeats one of the High Mages, Seto kidnaps [[Teana]] and holds her hostage to draw Atem to him. Jono and Atem arrive at the Dark Shrine to rescue her. Heishin orders Seto to defeat Atem and take the [[Millennium Puzzle]] as his prize for winning. Seto drags Teana into a secret room, where he duels Atem. After Seto loses he gloats about the Mages don't stand a chance against Atem.
 
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During the [[Dark RPG]] in the twentieth century, Seto was a character on [[Yami Yugi|Yami Yugi's]] side. Events concerning Seto were largely the same in the RPG as the past.
   
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Major differences included:
After Atem defeats the remaining High Mages and takes their Millennium Items, Seto approaches him and tells him to go to the now unguarded Dark Shrine, where he can face Heishin. Atem complies and meets Seto at the Dark Shrine. Here Seto shows him the way to Heishin. After Heishin loses, Seto takes Atem to the ruins. Here he reveals his true plan. He had gotten Atem to gather all the Millennium Items and take them to the Forbidden Ruins. Now Seto could use them to acquire great power, by summoning [[DarkNite]], but Heishin appears and holds a knife to Seto's neck demanding the Items from Atem or he would kill Seto. Atem gives Heishin the Items, which Heishin uses to summon DarkNite.
 
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* When Diabound was defeated, Akhenaden arrives, and Yami Bakura, with his [[Hourglass Token]], freezes time, allowing Aknadin to take the remaining [[Millennium Items]] and summon Zorc. Aknadin then proceeded to attack the Priests and Atem, but [[Hasan]] arrived and deflected the attack to the Hourglass, allowing time to move again.
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* Atem did not shatter the Millennium Pendant to defeat Zorc. With it still intact, he was able to give it to Seto, as he requested that Seto take over as Pharaoh. As Atem had no memories beyond that point, his body began to disappear, as he exited the Memory World.
   
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==Abilities==
After Atem defeats DarkNite, Seto disappears and is never heard from, within the kingdom, again.
 
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As one of the [[Sacred Guardians]], Seto was the wielder of the [[Millennium Rod]], which granted him access to a various number of abilities, including, but not limited to, initiating [[Shadow Games]] and summoning spirit monsters known as ''[[Ka]]'' (as well as being able to extract another person's ''Ka'' and seal them away). Others include being able to cast illusions on an opponent as well as taking control of someone else's mind, allowing the owner to do with them as they see fit.
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==Other appearances==
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<gallery>
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Seto manga portal.png | [[Priest Seto (manga)]]
 
Evil Seto.png | [[Seto (FMR)|Seto (''Forbidden Memories'')]]
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P.Seto-DDS.png | [[Priest Seto (DDS)|Priest Seto (''Dark Duel Stories'')]]
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</gallery>
   
 
==Deck/Ka==
 
==Deck/Ka==
In the anime and manga Seto Summons the following Monster spirits:
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Seto Summons the following Monster spirits:
* [[La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp]] (As seen in the flashback from Ishizu's [[Millennium Necklace]])
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* [[La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp (character)|La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp]] (as seen in the flashback from Ishizu's [[Millennium Necklace]])
* [[Battle Ox]]
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* [[Battle Ox (character)|Battle Ox]]
* [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]
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* [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (character)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]
* [[Duos]]
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* [[Duos|Duos]]
* [[Duos Dragon]] (fusion of Duos and [[Karim]]'s [[Curse of Dragon]])
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* [[Duos Dragon|Duos Dragon]] (fusion of Duos and [[Karim]]'s [[Curse of Dragon]])
 
* [[Galestgoras]]
 
* [[Galestgoras]]
* [[Mystic Horseman]]
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* [[Mystic Horseman (character)|Mystic Horseman]]
* [[Rabid Horseman]] (fusion of Battle Ox and Mystic Horseman)
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* [[Rabid Horseman (character)|Rabid Horseman]] (fusion of Battle Ox and Mystic Horseman)
   
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==Trivia==
In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories]]'', the first time the player ([[Pharaoh Atem|Atem]]) faces Seto, his Deck contains many strong cards for such an early stage in the game, like "[[Gaia the Fierce Knight]]" and "[[Ushi Oni]]". The second time he's faced, he now uses "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-eyes White Dragon]]s". The third time faced, Seto uses many powerful cards like three copies of "[[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon|Blue-eyes Ultimate Dragon]]".
 
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* Sometime later in his reign as Pharaoh, Seto is believed to have been the one who shattered the Millennium Pendant and established the [[Tomb Keeper|Tomb Keepers]] to guard Atem's tomb.
   
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
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{{Priest Seto pages}}
{{Characters/manga}}
 
 
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Revision as of 06:24, 20 September 2019


Seto was one of the six priests who served under Pharaoh Atem. The wielder of the Millennium Rod, he was the son of Priest Akhenaden and first cousin of Pharaoh Atem, later succeeding him as Pharaoh. Seto Kaiba is his modern reincarnation. Seto is named after the Egyptian God Set. In the Philippine Dub, it changes into Ministro Seto due to his role change from a "Priest" to "Minister."

Personality

Unlike his reincarnation, Seto Kaiba, Priest Seto was more open-minded and willing to work with others. Despite this, he was shown to be quite cruel, once considering ordering the guards to draw and quarter a prisoner, even though he had just had his evil spirit exorcised from him and would not be likely to perform any more crimes without it. However, when advised to exercise restraint for such prisoners, he agreed. Seto also had a high degree of intelligence, which carried over to his modern reincarnation. Another trait carried to his later reincarnation was his ruthlessness and belief in power, as he suggested brutal torture and death sentences for criminals and would sacrifice comrades in order to achieve what he perceived to be "the greater good."

Biography

Ancient Egypt

Childhood

Although technically Prince Atem's cousin by blood, Seto was raised as a commoner; his identity as Priest Akhenaden's son (who was the brother of Atem's deceased father, Pharaoh Akhenamkenan) was hidden from him out of fear for his personal safety. Due to this, Seto grew up an orphan, and initially believed his father to have been a soldier who died in battle.

At one point, he saved a girl from slave traders. When the traders set fire to his village and killed his mother in retaliation, the girl, named Kisara, unknowingly repaid him by unconsciously releasing her inner spirit, the White Dragon, who killed the traders and saved Seto.

Priesthood

Priest Seto and Pharaoh Atem were friends and rivals who helped each other by testing their mystical skills. He was eventually able to become a part of the Pharaoh's court and own the Millennium Rod, not because of his lineage, but because of his test scores, which were the highest the court had ever seen.

When Bakura appeared at the royal court with his powerful Ka Diabound, Seto and the other Priests tried to fight him off, but with no success. Eventually, Atem was able to summon Obelisk the Tormentor, which forced Bakura to retreat. Seto then decided that Bakura needed to be stopped and began a search for Ka powerful enough to defeat Diabound. People could be tortured into revealing their Ka, so, without the Pharaoh's knowledge, he decided to try rounding up and torturing criminals. This plan, he believed, would accomplish two things: both finding a Ka that could destroy Diabound and reducing the number of criminals that incite anarchy in the Pharaoh's kingdom.

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Priest Seto and Kisara.

During his search, he reencountered Kisara, now a grown woman, who was being stoned because of her unorthodox appearance (snow white hair, pale tan skin, and deep blue eyes). Shada sensed a great power within her ("even surpassing that of the gods") and Seto took her back with him to the palace. There he remembered the first time they met.

Akhenaden, after being possessed by Zorc, later attempted to test Kisara's immeasurable power by forcing her to fight in a battle against two other prisoners. Seto stepped in and saved her, but the two fell into danger, which caused Kisara to release her Ka and save them both.

Later on, the Sacred Guardians and Atem went to Kul Elna to battle and defeat Bakura once and for all. Diabound was eventually destroyed by Mahad, who became the Dark Magician, but Akhenaden was eventually able to summon Zorc Necrophades. Zorc then transformed the former priest into the Great Shadow Magus, revealing that Akhenaden was Seto's father in the process, and his lifelong desire was to make Seto rise to the throne. Akhenaden then kidnapped Seto and took him to the Palace. He then instructed his son to extract the White Dragon from Kisara, and possess a power greater than the three Gods. Before Seto could decide against this, Kisara ran to save him. Enraged, Akhenaden questioned how his son could abandon the chance to rule over Egypt. Seto answered that there would be no benefit from a world ruled by Zorc, and that Kisara showed Seto a light, a light known as love.[1] At this point, Akhenaden fired off a beam of dark energy, and Kisara dies taking the blow meant for Seto.

After Kisara's death, Seto attempted to kill his father, but instead had his mind taken over by Akhenaden and was forced to battle Atem. Kisara then saved Seto once more by using her "pure light" to purge Akhenaden from his mind, making Seto the new keeper of the the White Dragon. Seto shed tears in front of the "Blue-Eyes" tablet as he held Kisara's dead body in his arms. (Notably, this is the "vision" Kaiba witnessed during his Duel with Ishizu Ishtar in the Battle City arc, as well as during his later Duel with Yami Bakura.)

Subsequently, Seto fought bravely by Atem's side in the battle against Zorc Necrophades, using the White Dragon. After Atem sealed himself and Zorc within the Millennium Puzzle, Seto succeeded him as Pharaoh. Seto then constructed the Tablet of Lost Memories, as a tribute to Atem. Sometime later in his reign, Seto presumably ordered all traces of Atem's name to be destroyed so as to prevent anyone from using it to resurrect Zorc, as Atem used his name as the key to free and seal Zorc away.

Battle City

In the late twentieth century, Ishizu Ishtar exhibited the tablet, depicting Seto and Atem's battle, at the Domino City Museum. Before convincing Seto Kaiba to host the Battle City Duel Monsters tournament, she showed him the tablet and noted similarities between his and Priest Seto's use of the White Dragon. However, Kaiba was skeptical of its authenticity. Ishizu then showed Kaiba the battle between Atem and Seto. When Yami Yugi saw the tablet, he was immediately convinced the tablet depicted himself and Kaiba.

During Kaiba's quarter-final Duel against Ishizu, Kaiba saw a vision of Priest Seto holding Kisara before the White Dragon tablet, after her death. This prompted Kaiba to use the White Dragon's card, "Blue-Eyes White Dragon," to win the Duel. This interference disrupted Ishizu's prediction of Kaiba losing using "Obelisk the Tormentor."

During Kaiba's semi-final Duel against Yami Yugi, the destruction of their Egyptian God cards triggered another vision, in which they saw the battle between Seto, possessed by Akhenaden, and Atem. The vision ended during the summoning of the White Dragon and Dark Magician. Kaiba and Yami Yugi then Summoned the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Dark Magician" cards. Yami Yugi believed they were fated to continue the battle, while Kaiba believed the vision to have been an illusion created by subliminal suggestion.

Dark RPG

During the Dark RPG in the twentieth century, Seto was a character on Yami Yugi's side. Events concerning Seto were largely the same in the RPG as the past.

Major differences included:

  • When Diabound was defeated, Akhenaden arrives, and Yami Bakura, with his Hourglass Token, freezes time, allowing Aknadin to take the remaining Millennium Items and summon Zorc. Aknadin then proceeded to attack the Priests and Atem, but Hasan arrived and deflected the attack to the Hourglass, allowing time to move again.
  • Atem did not shatter the Millennium Pendant to defeat Zorc. With it still intact, he was able to give it to Seto, as he requested that Seto take over as Pharaoh. As Atem had no memories beyond that point, his body began to disappear, as he exited the Memory World.

Abilities

As one of the Sacred Guardians, Seto was the wielder of the Millennium Rod, which granted him access to a various number of abilities, including, but not limited to, initiating Shadow Games and summoning spirit monsters known as Ka (as well as being able to extract another person's Ka and seal them away). Others include being able to cast illusions on an opponent as well as taking control of someone else's mind, allowing the owner to do with them as they see fit.

Other appearances

Deck/Ka

Seto Summons the following Monster spirits:

Trivia

  • Sometime later in his reign as Pharaoh, Seto is believed to have been the one who shattered the Millennium Pendant and established the Tomb Keepers to guard Atem's tomb.

References

  1. Yu-Gi-Oh! episode 214: "Name of the Game"